04172nam 2200661 450 991081502530332120200520144314.01-5017-0647-01-5017-0592-X10.7591/9781501705922(CKB)3710000000954471(StDuBDS)EDZ0001660724(OCoLC)966876931(MdBmJHUP)muse53809(DE-B1597)478725(OCoLC)979581331(DE-B1597)9781501705922(Au-PeEL)EBL4737190(CaPaEBR)ebr11296558(CaONFJC)MIL969167(OCoLC)962413163(MiAaPQ)EBC4737190(EXLCZ)99371000000095447120161118h20162016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierImmigrants and electoral politics nonprofit organizing in a time of demographic change /Heath BrownIthaca, [New York] ;London, [England] :Cornell University Press,2016.©20161 online resource (249 pages)Previously issued in print: 2016.1-5017-0483-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Political Variety and Electoral Efficacy of Immigrant Nonprofit Organizations -- 1. The Precarious Position of Immigrants -- 2. Foundations and Funding -- 3. "You Don't Vote, You Don't Count" -- 4. A Model of Immigrant-Serving Engagement -- 5. From Mission to Electoral Strategy -- 6. Choosing Where to Focus -- Conclusion: Boldly Representing Immigrants in Tough Times -- Technical Appendix -- Notes -- Works Cited -- IndexIn Immigrants and Electoral Politics, Heath Brown shows why nonprofit electoral participation has emerged in relationship to new threats to immigrants, on one hand, and immigrant integration into U.S. society during a time of demographic change, on the other. Immigrants across the United States tend to register and vote at low rates, thereby limiting the political power of many of their communities. In an attempt to boost electoral participation through mobilization, some nonprofits adopt multifaceted political strategies including registering new voters, holding candidate forums, and phone banking to increase immigrant voter turnout. Other nonprofits opt to barely participate at all in electoral politics, preferring to advance the immigrant community by providing exclusively social services.Brown interviewed dozens of nonprofit leaders and surveyed hundreds of organizations. To capture the breadth of the immigrant experience, Brown selected organizations operating in traditional centers of immigration as well as new gateways for immigrants across the South: Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and, North Carolina. The stories that emerge from his research include incredible successes in mobilizing immigrant communities, including organizations that registered sixty thousand new immigrant voters in New York. They also reveal efforts to suppress nonprofit voter mobilization in Florida and describe the organizational response to hate crimes directed at immigrants in Illinois.ImmigrantsPolitical activityUnited StatesImmigrantsServices forUnited StatesElectionsUnited StatesNonprofit organizationsPolitical activityUnited StatesCommunity organizationUnited StatesUnited StatesEmigration and immigrationPolitical aspectsImmigrantsPolitical activityImmigrantsServices forElectionsNonprofit organizationsPolitical activityCommunity organization324.9730086/912Brown Heath A.1164777MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815025303321Immigrants and electoral politics3947655UNINA